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Curriculum Vitae of Jasleen Matharu CONTACT Department of Physics & Astronomy Email: [email protected] INFORMATION Texas A&M University Website College Station, Texas, 77843-4242 USA RESEARCH Galaxy Evolution, Galaxy Clusters, High-Redshift Galaxies, Star Formation, INTERESTS Quenching, Galaxy Growth, Cosmic Reionisation COMPUTER Python, Object Orientated Programming, bash, git, LaTeX, HTML, Markdown, LANGUAGES reStructuredText SPECIALISED • Grism redshift and line analysis software (Grizli) – Creator, Author and Editor SKILLS of “Grizli for Dummies”, an unofficial guide to using Grizli. • GALFIT EDUCATION Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK Ph.D., Astronomy, October 2015 - July 2019, Awarded: 30th November 2019 • Thesis Title: A Study on Quenching and Galaxy Growth in z ∼ 1 Clusters using HST WFC3 Grism Observations • Primary Supervisor: Dr. Adam Muzzin • Primary Supervisor (Cambridge): Prof. Paul C. Hewett • Secondary Supervisor (Cambridge): Dr. Matthew Auger University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London, UK M.Sci., Astrophysics (First Class Honours), September 2011 - August 2015 • Masters Project: Testing Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing • Primary Supervisor (nominal): Prof Hiranya Peiris • Secondary Supervisor: Dr Aurelien´ Benoit-Levy´ PROFFESIONAL Postdoctoral Research Associate September 2019 - present APPOINTMENTS Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University Supervisors: Prof. Casey Papovich& Prof. Robert Kennicutt Topic: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Cosmic Reionisation PROFESSIONAL Referee for Astronomy & Astrophysics 2020- EXPERIENCE Referee for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021- Referee for The Astrophysical Journal 2021- Referee for Gemini observing proposals 2021B External Reviewer for Hubble Space Telescope observing proposals Cycle 29 Reviewer for ALMA observing proposals Cycle 8 PUBLICATION Last updated 26th September 2021: STATISTICS • Refereed first author publications: 3, total citations: 31 • Refereed total publications: 8, total citations: 92 • H-index: 6 1 REFEREED 1. Matharu, J., Muzzin, A., Brammer, G.B., Nelson, E.J., Auger, A.W., Hewett, JOURNAL P.C., van der Burg, R.F.J., Balogh, M., Demarco, R., Marchesini, D., Noble, PUBLICATIONS A.G., Rudnick, G., van der Wel, A., Wilson, G. and Yee, H.K.C. 2021, “HST/WFC3 grism observations of z ∼ 1 clusters: Evidence for rapid outside-in environmental quenching from spatially resolved H-Alpha maps”. Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal. arXiv:2109.06186. 2. Simons, R.C, Papovich, C., Momcheva, I., Trump, J.R., Brammer, G.B., Estrada-Carpenter., V., Backhaus, B.E., Cleri, N. J., Finklestein, S.L., Giavalisco, M., Ji, Z., Jung, I., Matharu, J. and Weiner, B. 2020, “CLEAR: The Gas- Phase Metallicity Gradients of Star-Forming Galaxies at 0:6 < z < 2:6”. Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv:2011.03553. 3. Balogh, M., van der Burg, R.F.J., Muzzin, A., Rudnick, G., Wilson, G., Webb, K., Biviano, A., Boak, K., Cerulo, P., Chan, J.C.C., Cooper, M.C., Gilbank, D.G., Gwyn, S., Lidman, C., Matharu, J., McGee, S.L., Old, L., Pintos- Castro, I., Reeves, A.M.M., Shipley, H., Vulcani, B., Yee, H.K.C., Alonso, M.V., Bellhouse, C., Cooke, K.C., Davidson, A., De Lucia, G., Demarco, R., Drakos, N., Fillingham, S.P., Finoguenov, A., Forrest, B., Golledge, C., Jablonka, P., Garcia, D.L., McNab, K., Muriel, H., Nantais, J.B., Noble, A., Parker, L.C., Petter, G., Poggianti, B.M., Townsend, M., Valotto, C., Webb, T., and Zaritsky, D. 2021, “The GOGREEN and GCLASS Surveys: First Data Release”. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 500, Issue 1, Pages 358–387. 4. Ni, Q., Brandt, W. N., Yang, G., Leja, J., Chen, C. -T. J., Luo, B., Matharu, J., Sun, M., Vito, F., Xue, Y. Q., Zhang, K., 2020, “Revealing the relation between black-hole growth and host-galaxy compactness among star-forming galaxies”. Accepted for Publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, arXiv: 2007.04987. 5. Estrada-Carpenter, V., Papovich, C., Momcheva, I., Brammer, G.B., Simons, R., Bridge, J., Cleri, N., Ferguson, H., Finklestein, S.L., Giavalisco, M., Jung, I., Matharu, J., Trump, J. and Weiner, B. 2020, “CLEAR II: Evidence for Early Formation of the Most Compact Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshift”. Published in The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 898, Issue 2, article id. 171. 6. Matharu, J., Muzzin, A., Brammer, G.B., van der Burg, R.F.J., Auger, M.W., Hewett, P.C., van der Wel, A., van Dokkum, P., Chan, J.C.C., Demarco, R., Marchesini, D., Nelson, E.J., Noble, A.G. and Wilson, G. 2020, “HST/WFC3 grism observations of z ∼ 1 clusters: evidence for evolution in the mass– size relation of quiescent galaxies from poststarburst galaxies”. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 493, Issue 4, Pages 6011–6032. 7. Matharu, J., Muzzin, A., Brammer, G.B., van der Burg, R.F.J., Auger, M.W., Hewett, P.C., van der Wel, A., van Dokkum, P., Balogh, M., Chan, J.C.C., Demarco, R., Marchesini, D., Nelson, E.J., Noble, A.G., Wilson, G. and Yee, H.K.C. 2019, “HST/WFC3 grism observations of z ∼ 1 clusters: The cluster versus field stellar mass–size relation and evidence for size growth of quiescent galaxies from minor mergers”. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 484, Issue 1, Pages 595–617. 2 8. Noble, A.G., Muzzin, A., McDonald, M., Rudnick, G., Matharu, J., Cooper, M.C., Demarco, R., Lidman, C., Nantais, J., van Kampen, E., Webb, T.M.A., Wilson, G. and Yee, H.K.C. 2019, “Resolving CO(2-1) in z ∼ 1:6 Gas-Rich Cluster Galaxies with ALMA: Rotating Molecular Gas Disks with Possible Signatures of Gas Stripping”. Published in The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 870, Issue 2, article id. 56. SOFTWARE Total citations: 2 JOURNAL 1. Brammer, Gabe and Matharu, Jasleen, 2021. “Grizli: Release 2021”. Published PUBLICATIONS on Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1146904. SUBMITTED Total citations: 6 JOURNAL 1. Cleri, N. J., Trump, J.R., Backhaus, B.E., Momcheva, I., Papovich, C., Simons, PUBLICATIONS R.C., Weiner, B., Estrada-Carpenter., V., Finklestein, S.L., Giavalisco, M., Ji, Z., Jung, I., Matharu, J., Martinez, F. III. and Sturm, M.R. 2020, “CLEAR: Paschen-Beta Star Formation Rates and Dust Attenuation of Low Redshift Galaxies”. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. arXiv:2009.00617. 2. Backhaus, B.E., Trump, J.R., Cleri, N. J., Simons, R.C, Papovich, C., Momcheva, I., Estrada-Carpenter., V., Finklestein, S.L., Matharu, J., Ji, Z., Weiner, B., Giavalisco, M. and Jung, I. 2021, “CLEAR: Emission Line Ratios at Cosmic High Noon”. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv:2109.08147. JOURNAL 1. Matharu, J., Papovich, C., Momcheva, I., Simons, R.C., Brammer, G.B., Ji, PUBLICATIONS IN Z., Giavalisco, M., Weiner, B. Estrada-Carpenter., V., Backhaus, B.E., Cleri, PREPARATION N. J., Finklestein, S.L. and Jung, I. 2021 “CLEAR: The evolution of spatially resolved star formation between 0:5 < z < 1:7 from spatially resolved H- Alpha maps”. Being prepared for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. PRESENTATIONS • [COVID-19] Extragalactic Group Seminar, Revealing how Galaxy Growth, Star Formation and Quenching proceed in High Redshift Galaxies with Spatially Resolved Space-based Slitless Spectroscopy, University of Edinburgh, UK. 21st Sep 2021 • [COVID-19][Invited Colloquium given in-person] Steward Observatory/NSF NOIR Lab Colloquium, Revealing how Galaxy Growth, Star Formation and Quenching proceed in High Redshift Galaxies with Spatially Resolved Space- based Slitless Spectroscopy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. 16th Sep 2021 • [COVID-19] School of Physical Sciences Seminar, Revealing how Galaxy Growth, Star Formation and Quenching proceed in High Redshift Galaxies with Spatially Resolved Space-based Slitless Spectroscopy, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. 9th Sep 2021 • [COVID-19][Contributed] Galaxy Cluster Formation II Workshop, The Role of Galaxy Clusters in Shaping the Size Growth and Quenching of Galaxies, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany and Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA. 17th Jun 2021 • [COVID-19][Contributed] Multi-Object Spectroscopy for Statistical Measures of Galaxy Evolution Workshop, Spatially resolved star formation in different environments between 0:5 < z < 1:7 with HST WFC3 slitless spectroscopy, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA. 18th May 2021 3 • [COVID-19][Invited] Joint Nuclear and Astrophysics Seminar, Tracing star formation in galaxies using spatially resolved H-Alpha emission line maps, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. 26th Feb 2021 • [COVID-19][Invited] Extragalactic/Cosmology Seminar, The Role of Galaxy Clusters in Shaping the Size Growth and Quenching of Galaxies, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. 25th Jan 2021 • [COVID-19][Contributed] 237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, The Role of Galaxy Clusters in Shaping the Size Growth and Quenching of Galaxies, virtually anywhere. 15th Jan 2021 • [COVID-19] Mitchell Institute Seminar, The Role of Galaxy Clusters in Shaping the Size Growth and Quenching of Galaxies, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. 21st Sep 2020 • [COVID-19] Texas A&M Astrosymposium, New results from spatially resolved studies with space-based slitless spectroscopy, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. 17th Aug 2020